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Doug Miller wrote:
In article , zxcvbob
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Doug Miller wrote:

I believe he only needed about three inches, right? So thread *five* inches,
and cut off the three-and-whatever that's needed. No harm done if it's
threaded all the way, is there?

Tapered threads.

Won't matter. It's a shower nipple, so one end of it will always be open, and
there won't ever be any significant pressure on the joint.

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Regards,
Doug Miller (alphageek at milmac dot com)

Nobody ever left footprints in the sands of time by sitting on his butt.
And who wants to leave buttprints in the sands of time?

A flow restrictor shower head can cause enough pressure in a
showerhead elbow to cause a poor joint to leak. I had this at my own
house at one time.
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Larry Wasserman Baltimore, Maryland